But the thought of a person consciously crashing an airliner into a mountain side, with 150 crying and screaming passengers on the other side of a locked door is something of which that I can't even begin to conceive.

I'm not a religious person, but my heart goes to all the surviving family members, friends and acquaintances of all those who were needlessly lost.

Just as I was harassed at 8 years old, baseball wunderkind Mo'ne Davis is a target of sexual shaming. Here's why

Mo’ne Davis is a Black girl wunderkind. At age 13, she has pitched a shutout at the Little League World Series, becoming the first girl ever to do so, and she has been on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Disney is now planning to do a movie about her called, “Throw Like Mo.”

I’m not ashamed to admit that I still watch the Disney Channel, and I will certainly be tuning in. But everyone isn’t as excited as I am to see a Black girl on the come up. Last week, Joey Casselberry, a sophomore baseball player from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, called Mo’ne a “slut” in response to the news about the movie. He was subsequently expelled from the team.

In response, Davis has forgiven him and she and her coach have asked that he be reinstated. About Casselberry, Davis released a statement, which said:

Everyone makes mistakes and everyone deserves a second chance. I know he didn’t mean it in that type of way, and I know a lot of people get tired of like seeing me on TV but just think about what you’re doing before you actually do it. I know right now he’s really hurt and I know how hard he worked just to get where he is right now.

Woman Held For 8 Days In Psych Ward For Saying Obama Follows Her On Twitter… Even Though He Does

A New York woman was locked up in the psychiatric ward of a Long Island hospital after claiming that President Barack Obama follows her on Twitter. But there’s only one problem… he actually does.

It all started last year when Kam Brock tried to get her car out of a New York Police Department impound site. When she walked in to the Public Service Area 6 NYPD station, she was upset, but by no means, her lawyer explains, “emotionally disturbed,” as the police claim.

The NYPD had her forcibly committed for a 72-hour psychiatric evaluation that soon turned into an 8-day ordeal.

Now, Brock is fighting back and suing the NYPD and the hospital for falsely imprisoning her.

She recounts, that “next thing you know, the police held onto me, the doctor stuck me with a needle and I was knocked out. I woke up to them taking off my underwear and then went out again. I woke up the next day in a hospital robe.”

She explains that the whole “Obama” comment was only brought up to try to explain “the type of person I am. I’m a good person, a positive person. Obama follows positive people.”

I'm wondering how long it'll take to get the point where I'm not constantly reminded that I'm a black person living in America.

I'd love to go about my business, not having to consider how my own race impacts whatever situation I'm in at any given time, like at the place where I buy my overpriced coffee brewed by underpaid workers.

I'd love to have people look at me and regard me as merely a person, rather than as one of "those people."

It would be nice to not have awkward racially topical conversations with white people that only focuses on their feelings.

You know what else would be nice?

It would be nice to let black people have black music, dreadlocks or any other aspect of black culture without it being judged as innately inferior unless white people appropriate these things for themselves.

Yeah, that would be really nice.

I would love it if black mothers didn't have to bury their black babies before their time.

I would love it if black people weren't more wary of the police than they are of criminals.

I would love it if we were made to feel welcome in our own country.

I'd love these things and more… More like blackness being generally considered as normal and not the "other," impelling some to think that we need to have conversations about race out of the blue.

I wonder if they want have a conversation about how normality is only earned by some and not others, by dint of what they were when they were born.

If that's not the conversation that they want to have, then can I just have my overpriced coffee brewed by underpaid workers and allowed the luxury to just think about mundane things in peace?

That would be a lot nicer than having conversations about race out of the blue.